The boy was taken to UPMC Mercy after the shooting that happened around 8 p.m. at the corner of Fernleaf and Elsie streets.

"I don't want to see him suffer. I don't want to see his parents go through that. I couldn't imagine losing a child," neighbor Cindy Mirabelli said.

Pittsburgh Public Safety spokeswoman Sonya Toler said the teen was walking with a friend when they heard gunshots and started running.

"About four blocks away, the one turned and saw that his friend was bleeding. At that point, he collapsed. This was a 14-year-old. He lives here in this neighborhood," Toler said.

Police found at least nine shell casings at the scene. They also found a BB gun, but they don't know if it was connected to the shooting. A woman who lives in the area said her storm door was shot out.

Police have not identified any suspects and have not yet determined if it was a random shooting or if someone was being targeted.

"You know, this was a nice neighborhood. You never had nobody going around stealing, shooting, robbing around here. This was a peaceful neighborhood. We never tolerate that stuff," neighbor Raymond Gilyard said. "They don't have no respect for themselves, they don't have no respect for nobody else, nobody's property, nothing."

Investigators were talking with people who were in the area at the time of the shooting, including the victim's friend.